TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN[1]

Written:Written on August 3, 1920Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      Sent to Lozovaya.

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      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Ido not quite understand why you are dissatisfied with
the separation of the fronts. Let me know your reasons.
It seemed to me to be necessary since the Wrangel danger
is increasing. As to a deputy, let me know your opinionabout a candidate. Please inform me also what promises
the Commander-in-Chief is late with. Our diplomacy is
subordinated to the C.C. and will never disrupt our
successes, if the Wrangel danger does not cause
vacillations within the Central Committee. From the Kuban
area and the Don Region we are getting alarming, even
desperate, telegrams about the menacing growth of the
insurgent movement. They are insisting on more speed in
defeating Wrangel.

[1]Thistelegram was written in reply to the following telegram
from Stalin, sent on August 2, 1920, from Lozovaya: “Fiercefighting is continuing with growing intensity; today we shall
probably lose Alexandrovsk. I received your note concerning
the separation of the fronts. The Politbureau ought not to
concern itself with trifles. I can go on working at the front for two
weeks at the most, I need a rest, find someone to replace me. I do
not believe the promises of the Commander-in-Chief for a single
minute, by his promises he only lets us down. As regards the
sentiments of the Central Committee in favour of peace with
Poland, one cannot help remarking that our diplomacy sometimes
very successfully torpedoes the results of our military successes” =

(Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51, p. 441).